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Front 1

How many outputs from the crossover on a mono Bi-Amp System?

Back 1

2

Front 2

The range of the cut off frequency point between the low and the mid range on a Tri Amp system is between?

Back 2

50 - 200Hz

Front 3

The Order of Sending the Oscillator to any given Mix Output on the Yamaha M7CL-48 is?

Back 3

1)From Touch Screen Press Monitor
2)Enable Oscillator Output
3)Press pop-down menu
4)Assign Oscillator desired Output
5)Master outputs up to unity
6)Send level from Oscillator

Front 4

What are two useful applications for the return lines?

Back 4

1)Bring the crossover outputs from the drive rack in the FOH back to the stage amplifiers
2)Talk back mic
3)Monitor Mixes
4)Clear Com

Front 5

What is the system signal path on a stereo quad?

Back 5

Source - Split - Console - EQ - Crossover > feeds 8 outputs for stereo quad Hi, HI-Mid, Mid, Low-Mid, Low > through return lines to the Amplifiers on the Stage.

Source -Split - Console - EQ - Crossover - Amplifiers - Drivers

Front 6

What are the 6 Outputs that feed the 5.1 system from the Yamaha M7CL - 48?

Back 6

14 - CENTER
15 - LEFT
16 - RIGHT

1-REAR LEFT
2-REAR RIGHT
3-SUB

Front 7

TRUE/FALSE
You can activate the phantom power on any console if using the active split

Back 7

False
Only the console that takes the main feed from the active split can have phantom.

Front 8

Beyer M88
Electro Voice Re20
Sennhieser e602
SM87
SM98
SM91
Audix OM5
Sennhieser MD421
Crown PCC 160
Shure B52

Back 8

Beyer M88 - Dyn
Electro Voice Re20 - Dyn
Sennhieser e602 - Dyn
SM87- Con
SM98 - Con
SM91 - Con
Audix OM5 - Dyn
Sennhieser MD421 - Dyn
Crown PCC 160 - Con
Shure B52 -Dyn

Front 9

How do you enable phase on a channel on the Yamaha M7CL-48?

Back 9

1)Press select on desired channel
2)Press HA twice
3)Enable Phase Reverse

Front 10

The order of assigning the Mute Master on the Yamaha M7CL-48?

Back 10

1)From Touch Screen press Setup
2)Press User Setup
3)Select User Define Key on the tab at bottom
4)From Touch Screen press the desired User Defined Key Number (1-12)
5)From Touchscreen press function window, Scroll to Mute Maser
6)From Touchscreen press parameter window, select scroll to desired mute group number (1-8)
7)Close Window

Front 11

The type of speaker system of the stage wedges are?

Back 11

Active
Self Powered
Bi-Amp

Front 12

Does Active Split Require Phantom Power From the Console?

Back 12

No
You can provide phantom from the active split by itself

Front 13

Three Most common used kick drum Mics

Back 13

SM 91 Condenser
Beta 52 Dynamic
Beyer M88 Dynamic
AKG D112 Dynamic
AKG D12 Dynamic

Front 14

What are the Dimensions of the Yamaha M7CL - 48?

Back 14

48 - Channel Inputs
16 - Omni Outputs

Front 15

How do you apply phantom power +48v on the Yamaha M7CL - 48?

Back 15

1)Press Setup
2)Enable 48v Master
3)Press select on desired channel
4)Press head amp twice
5)Enable phantom on channel

Front 16

How would you feed the Broadcast truck with all of the inputs from the sage?

Back 16

Your only output will be from the split.

Front 17

As the FOH engineer your talk back microphone is patched from ch. 40 on the house console. That channel is assigned to a master bus so you can make an announcement to the crowd from the FOH Console.

You also need to talk to the band on stage for doing sound check.

How are you going to do that?

Back 17

Take an Aux or an Omni Output
Plug a return line to the monitor console from FOH console
MUST Send it to stage Pre the fader

Front 18

How do you Assign any given ch. on the Yamaha M7CL-48 to be controlled by a DCA? Mute Group?

Back 18

1)From touch screen press Ch. Job
2)Press DCA/Mute Groups
3)Select DCA Number (1-8)
4)Press select on selected channels
5)Close Window

Front 19

Do Active DI require phantom power?

Back 19

Hell yeah

Front 20

FOH

Back 20

Active
Self Powerd
Tri Amped System
Meyer CQ2 -Bi-Amped
+Meyer 750P - Sub for Low Freq
=Tri Amped

Front 21

Stage Wedges

Back 21

Self Powerd
Bi-Amped

Front 22

JBL

Back 22

Passive
Powerd by amp in Rack
Full Range

Front 23

Mackie Sub

Back 23

Self-Powered
Crossover after the Amp

Front 24

Bi Amp Filters

Back 24

Between the Low and the High
800 - 2.5kHz

Front 25

Tri-Amped Filters

Back 25

Between the Low and the Mid
5oHz-200Hz
Between the Mid and the High
800hz - 2.5kHZ

Front 26

Quad Amp Filters

Back 26

Between the Low and the Low-Mid
50Hz - 135Hz
Between the Low-Mid and the Hi-Mid
450Hz - 700 Hz
Between the Hi-Mid and the Hi
800Hz - 2.5kHz

Front 27

Best Mics for Snare?

Back 27

SM 57 - Dyn
SM55 - Dyn
SM56 - Dyn
Beta 56 - Dyn
AKG C414 - Condensor
AKG 421 - Condensor

Front 28

DI boxes

Back 28

Active
Passive
Countryman
Radian

Front 29

Best Guitar Mics

Back 29

SM 57 - Dyn
KSM 32 - Condenser
e609 - Dyn

Front 30

Piano Mics

Back 30

Crown PCC 160 Condenser
SM 57 With rag in hole

Front 31

What are the two types of splits?

Back 31

Active - Requires Power (electricity)

Passive - does not require power because it has internal transformers

Front 32

Inverse Square Law

Back 32

Doubling the distance from the source will result in 6dB of gain reduction

Front 33

Talk Back to Stage

Back 33

Aux Out - Talk back to Band
Return Line - To monitor console from FOH
Monitor - Aux out thru return line.
The send must be pre fader

Front 34

All Aux sends by default are?

Back 34

Post-Fader
So send the Aux for Talk Back Pre Fader

Front 35

Master Outputs are Always

Back 35

Set to Unity Gain

Front 36

Amplifiers Must See

Back 36

Unity Gain

Front 37

Master outputs are always up to unity gain before?

Back 37

The Sends

Front 38

Default of an Aux Send is Always

Back 38

Post Fader

Front 39

Any signal from the FOH console, to the band on stage the output is always?

Back 39

An Aux

*and sent thru a return line

Front 40

Any Signal from the FOH through an Aux to a band on stage the send MUST BE?

Back 40

Pre Fader

Front 41

How to set Ch. Link

Back 41

1)From touch screen press Ch. Job
2)From touch screen press Ch. Link
3)Press and hold select on Ch. while pressing select on another desired Ch.

Front 42

How do you add an Insert on a Ch. on The Yamaha M7CL - 48

Back 42

1)Press select on desired ch. input or output
2)From touch screen press insert
3)Press output
4)Apply insert to slot #1 on desired slot #
5)Press input
6)Apply insert to slot #1
7)Enable insert on

Front 43

How to do 2 Track Recording on the Yamaha M7CL-48?m mi

Back 43

1)From center logic section press Matrix
2)From Touch Screen Press Name of matrix #1
3)Assign Matrix # 1 to desired omni output
4)Press Select on Matrix #2
5)Assign Matrix #2 to the desired omni output
6)Matrix outputs up to unity and turned on
7)Press select on the stereo Bus
8)Send left to Matrix #1 and Right to Matrix #2

Front 44

How to launch studio manager 2

Back 44

1)From computer dock launch Studio Manager 2
2)Double click the console icon
3)From the window menu select Re-Synchronization
4)Press OK for default setting: Console to PC
5)Select desired Windows

Front 45

US Power?
Rest of the world Power?

Back 45

120v @ 60Hz
240v @ 50Hz

Front 46

Single Phase Power Colors

Back 46

Ground - Green
White - Neutral
Black - Hot

Front 47

Two Phase Power Colors

Back 47

Ground - Green
Neutral - White
Black - Hot
Red - Hot

Front 48

Three phase power colors

Back 48

Ground - Green
Neutral - White
Black - Hot
Red - Hot
Blue - Hot

Front 49

Neutral + Hot =
Neutral + Ground =
2 Hots =
What would create a buzz or humming sound in the system.

Back 49

120v
0v
240v
Any voltage readings more than a half a volt between the Ground and Neutral

Front 50

Order of Connecting the Power

Back 50

1)Ground
2)Neutral
3)Hot

Front 51

Order of Disconnecting

Back 51

1)Hot
2)Neutral
3)Ground

Front 52

Distribution box feeds the

Back 52

5 Wire

Front 53

5 wire feeds the

Back 53

Breakout Box

Front 54

Power Cables for Wedges

Back 54

Neutrik
NL4
NL8
EP4
EP6

Front 55

Monitor Console is a

Back 55

Soundcraft SM20
40 Ch. Input
20 Output

Front 56

How to assign Pink Noise

Back 56

1)Assign OSC to All Buses
2)Master Output up to Unity 1 @ a time
3)Send level from OSC

Front 57

Why is the system EQ always inserted on the mix output?

Back 57

Because if it was not you could not here the EQ
It has to interrupt the signal in order to come back and then be heard and monitor able

Front 58

How do you insert the EQ on the Stagecraft SM 20

Back 58

1)Send of the insert is Pre Master output fader
2)Send any channel to mix output
3)Get goold level on the mic pre
4)Solo PFL Ch. Input
5)Cue wedge fader up, monitor, eq, compress, etc
6)Solo Clear, cue wedge fader down
7)Solo or AFL desired mix outputs
8)Cue Wedge Up
9)Send Signal from channal to output
10)If post - send channel fader @ unity befor sending
11) If Pre send - Apply pre on the desired send before sending

Front 59

Amplifier Rack

Back 59

Amplifiers

Front 60

What two components that define the drive rack

Back 60

EQ
Crossover

Front 61

The lighting console Is a

Back 61

Grand MA
MIDI protocol

Front 62

The Grand MA has how many outputs?
What are they?

Back 62

6 Outputs = A,B,C,D,E,F
Each output can carry 512 MIDI channels

Front 63

Please explain how to set up and patch ONE active monitor mix on the stage in Meyer Hall, indicating all the inputs and the Outputs

Back 63

Mix Output,
To the Crossover input, Out Crossover
To the EQ input, Out EQ
To The amp and monitor on stage

Front 64

If you patch the mix output on the monitor console to the EQ, monitor engineers would not be able to monitor the EQ in their Cue wedge. Please explain how to reconfigure the system to be able to monitor that EQ on the cue Wedge. In Details.

Back 64

Patch the EQ in from the send and the return Before the Mix Output

Front 65

How many outputs from the crossover in a passive speaker with a hi and low frequency drivers

Back 65

2

Front 66

How are you able to feed signal from multiple amplifiers to one speaker with an NL8 connector

Back 66

from the amplifiers With a bannana clip to a speaker Patch Bay where it would be soldered in.

Front 67

Lead singer Randy McCandy from the rock band Hot Mittens asked for his vocals on channel 28 in his mix #3. After following all the proper steps, you ended up sending his vocals to his mix pre the channel fader. He was happy and pleased but after a few minutes he asked if you could add some reverb to his vocals. Yamaha Rev 500 is patched through mix 18 output and returns on channel 37. Please explain in Detail the proper order of adding the reverb.

Back 67

Send the Vocals on Ch. 28 Pre Fader to Mix 18.
PFL Channel 37 To make sure you are Receiving Wet Signal
Take the Return from Ch. 37 Pre Fader and send it to his Mix on #3
Monitor Your Mix on Ch. #3 by AFL listening to his mix on the Cue Wedge
Clear solos and Send

Front 68

Please explain how to send the pink noise on the Soundcraft monitor console to any given mix output.

Back 68

1)Assign OSC to All Busses
2)Master Output up to Unity 1 at a Time
3)Send Level from the OSC

Front 69

As a FOH engineer during sound check, you realized that the Saxophone on channel 19 on the FOH console sound really bad. You called the stage monitor engineer over the clear-com system and we informed that the channel on the monitor console sounds fine. There are two possibilities for this problem. Please trouble shoot.

Back 69

1) The Channel I/O is bad on the console
2) The Channel line from the split is Bad

Front 70

Dynamic or Condenser
AKG C3000
Sennheiser e602
Beyer M 88
Shure Beta SM 87
Shure SM Beta 98
AKG D112
Audix OM 5
Shure Beta 52
EV RE20
Sennheiser MD421

Back 70

AKG C3000 Condenser
Sennheiser e602 Dynamic
Beyer M 88 Dynamic
Shure Beta SM 87 Condenser
Shure SM Beta 96 Condenser
AKG D112 Dynamic
Audix OM 5 Dynamic
Shure B52 Dynamic
EV RE20 Dynamic
Sennheiser MD421 Dynamic

Front 71

How are you able to patch the Yamaha REV 7 (TBP) to the Ramsa 40 X 18 monitor console including the cable patch indicating the inputs and outputs

Back 71

Mix Output > TBP > Open Ch. Line Input > Send is Pre Fader

Front 72

Name two useful applications for an Aux send

Back 72

TBP
Talk Back
Mix Output

Front 73

Meyer Hall PA system is defined as

Back 73

Self Powered active tri-amped system

Front 74

Please explain how to send the pink noise to the rear right speaker in the FOH system from the Yamaha M7CL

Back 74

1)Select Monitor
2)Turn on Output
3)Select Dropdown from OSC section
4)Select Mix 2
5)Assign and Turn on Faders including master
6)Bring up OSC Level

Front 75

How much voltage between blue and black in a single or 2 phase power system

Back 75

There is no Blue in a single or 2 phase power system

Front 76

Please explain how to use the FOH talk back microphone on channel 48 to talk to the band on stage

Back 76

Aux output through return lines back to the stage Pre Fader

Front 77

How many circuit breakers for each 5 wire connector outputs from the Distribution Box?

Back 77

3

Front 78

Please explain the signal path from the source on stage to the loud speakers in a tri-amp FOH system.

Back 78

Source > Split > Console > EQ > Crossover (8 Outputs) > AMPS > Drivers

Front 79

What makes a system active?

Back 79

In an active system the crossover feeds the amplifiers

Front 80

What is a system comprised of

Back 80

Speakers and Amps

Front 81

What is +48v

Back 81

The maximum voltage allowed by the FCC

Front 82

What is the difference between an active split and a passive split?

Back 82

-An active Split has only one output that feeds phantom power

-A passive split when fed phantom power from the console will split that phantom power to the other two isolated outputs

Front 83

Can a send and a Return be on one cable

Back 83

Yes

Front 84

T.B.

Back 84

Aux out thru return lines to stage